Their Wishes Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful…
— Plato
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It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their…
— St. Vincent
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
— Jean Toomer
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Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. . . [T]wo or three stinging strokes on the legs or…
— James Dobson
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The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its…
— Unknown Author
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The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to…
— George Washington
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It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act…
— Vincent de Paul
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen,…
— Lajos Kossuth
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Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that…
— Kajol
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There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing.…
— Gerhard Richter
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Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.
— Ludacris
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I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women…
— Malina Suliman
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every…
— Hermann Hesse
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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